Generating index data with the AFP API

The AFP Application Programming Interface (AFP API) is a product that can be used to index print data. If you know COBOL or PL/I, you can use the AFP API to format complex output without knowing the syntax and semantics of MO:DCA-P. Using the AFP API, you can index AFP files with both group-level and page-level indexing tags, which allows more specific information to be included in the output file. The indexing information is added at the same time that the application program generates the print data. You then process the output file with an indexing program, such as ACIF, to create the index data that the Content Manager OnDemand data loading program stores in the database.